Xu Xi
Xu Xi (Xú Xī, died before 975) was a Chinese painter in the Southern Tang kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. • Illustration — Butterfly and Chinese Wisteria Flowers, by Xu Xi • Illustration — Snowy Bamboo 雪竹, attributed to Xu Xi。 Width 99.2 cm Height 151.1 cm.
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Xu Xi
Xü Xi · Scanned from an old Chinese book · Public domain
- Name
- Xu Xi (徐熙)
- Born
- 9th century
- Birthplace
- Jiangnan Circuit, Tang
- Died
- Before 975
- Place of death
- Southern Tang
- Nationality
- Song dynasty.
- Occupation
- painter and poet.
- Fields
- sketch.
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• Name — Xu Xi (徐熙) • Born — 9th century • Birthplace — Jiangnan Circuit, Tang • Died — Before 975 • Place of death — Southern Tang
Snowy Bamboo (雪竹) attributed to Xu Xi. Width 99.2 cm, Length 151.1 cm. See Zhongguo gu dai shu hua jian ding zu. (中國古代書畫鑑定組編) 1997. Zhongguo hui hua quan ji.(中國繪畫全集) Zhongguo mei shu fen lei quan ji.
Xu Xi · Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆)
Drawing of a bird perched on a branch of an apple tree.
Xu Xi · "China," Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 6, 1911, Plate I, between pp. 212 and 213, Fig. 4.
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886
Xu Xi born at Nanjing.
975
Xu Xi died at Southern Tang.
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